The crux of the story is the discovery of an optical artifact, which allows the protagonist to look into and eventually travel to a parallel world. The rulers of the other world have been kidnapping and enslaving people from "our" world to support their luxurious lifestyle, which bears some resem...

I read a book about five years ago which was about a seventeen year old boy in the early 20th century, who was shot and became immortal after seventeen minutes underwater, albeit functionally dead. He has certain relations with a film star in the twenties which causes him to lose functionality in...

I'm trying to find the name of a series. I read the first two books but the third wasn't finished at that time, it probably is by now - but i cant remember the name of the series, the author, or the title of any of the books. It must be fairly recent, within the last 5 years, give-or-take. I cant...

I know I've found this book before. I read it somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s. It was short, maybe 30 pages or so, and involved a young girl on the bus, on her way to school, who I think has to write a story for an assignment, but can't think of anything. While looking out at the t...

This might be the same story as Series involving someone who looked young, but was actually old, a magical barrier to the north, and a sarcophagus although I'm recalling different details. It started with two magicians fighting, and ends with the "good guy" throwing himself into a space with an e...

Yeah I know, what nonsense, right? Well, read on You remember how he had been suffering from palladium poisoning because of his chest piece, as seen in the form of a high-tech crossword puzzle on his neck, he was probably crazy enough that he wanted to do it to himself. You know I find it extreme...

In the late 1980s in the U.K., I read a children's or young adults fantasy story - just one book. It starts with a young boy as the central character (I think it is set in U.K.). The boy is staying with or lives with his gran in a house/cottage near a wood. I remember him mowing the lawn in the b...

Celtic mythology has tuatha de dannan, druids, arthurian legends, camelot and summer isles of the divine, things associated with wood elves. Germanic mythology has light elves (Dokkalfar) who although not described much are very similar to how tolkien depicted his elves and the usual high elves (...

Basically the traits should be long life, good looks, pointy features, thin, magically adept and closer to divinity. I think, Yaksha of Hindu Mythology could potentially be one candidate but he seems to ugly (broad features). So, if anyone knows of some beings that are equivalent of elves in non...

A repeated plot device of TNG is sabotage and similar aboard the USS enterprise. Malicious agents infiltrate the Enterprises crew again and again by subterfuge, e.g. by posing as crew members, as shipwreck survivors in need of rescuing, as small children, in the guise of diplomats (or their attac...

When Rey finds the wayfinder a dark side version of herself comes out. Is it just her hallucination, or something triggered by her presence?

What is the Pottermore game and where can I play this?

In Marvel's Secret Wars miniseries (1985), issue #2, Magneto sneaks into the heroes' base and flies to the generator, thinking: There it is -- ! The power core which energizes this entire installation! This should serve my purpose! Soon after, Spider-Man's danger sense alerts him to the intrus...

I'm trying to find the name of a short illustrated story from the 1970s or 1980s that was contained in a larger book. The story is aimed at children but has an adult art style. It is very well drawn in color. The story revolves around a group of peaceful ladybirds who live an idyllic life but one...

Jango Fett was used as the template for the Grand Army of the Republic. Was he aware of the plot to kill the Jedi using the clones (Order 66)? In Episode II, Attack of the Clones, Fett states: "I was recruited by a man called Tyrannus on one of the moons of Bogden." -Jango Fett, Attack of the Cl...

Teenage boy has to find a place with survivors in post apocalyptic world. Pretty sure it started like that. On his journey meets a girl and they fall in love. Reminds me of the Fallout video game series kind of story. I remember this from the mid '90s. Was one of my favorite series and would love...

My favorite episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," is about slavery. However, although the characters do occasionally refer to the situation using words like "slavery," the gamesters' preferred terminology for their prisoners appears to be "thralls." Moreover, ...